Sword Health is shifting healthcare from human-first to AI-first through its AI Care platform, making world-class healthcare available anytime, anywhere, while significantly reducing costs for payers, self-insured employers, national health systems, and other healthcare organizations. Sword began by reinventing pain care with AI at its core, and has since expanded into women’s health, movement health, and more recently mental health. Since 2020, more than 700,000 members across three continents have completed 10 million AI sessions, helping Sword's 1,000+ enterprise clients avoid over $1 billion in unnecessary healthcare costs. Backed by 42 clinical studies and over 44 patents, Sword Health has raised more than $500 million from leading investors, including Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Transformation Capital, and Founders Fund. Learn more at www.swordhealth.com.
Overview:
As Senior Commercial Counsel, you will play a key role in advising our business and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts across our UK and European operations. You will provide pragmatic legal guidance to stakeholders, helping the business achieve its commercial goals while effectively managing risk and ensuring compliance with UK, EU and EU member state laws and relevant international considerations.
Responsibilities :Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial agreements, including client services contracts (MSAs, SOWs, SLAs), vendor agreements, and non-disclosure agreements.Provide clear, business-focused advice on UK and EU contract law and commercial best practices.Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of contract templates, playbooks, and legal processes.Collaborate with operational, commercial, clinical and leadership teams to provide high quality, commercially-focused and pragmatic legal advice on a wide range of topics.Advise generally on legal and regulatory requirements relevant to our business and services in the UK and EU, including GDPR, AI, advertising and marketing standards, and technology-related regulations.Qualifications:Qualified solicitor or barrister in England & Wales with 5–10 years’ post-qualification experience in a law firm or in-house legal role preferred. Applicants qualified only in EU jurisdictions may be considered with compelling UK commercial experience. Strong experience negotiating and drafting software/SaaS commercial contracts, license agreements, services agreements, technology agreements, vendor contracts, and other types of commercial agreements, especially with respect to the healthcare and health tech space.Solid experience providing in-house legal advice in a fast-paced start up or scale up environment.Ability to provide pragmatic, commercially minded solutions to legal issues.Excellent drafting skills, attention to detail, and analytical capabilities.A proactive, collaborative team player who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced and rapidly-evolving start up environment.Fluent in English (written and spoken); additional European languages are a plus.Proficiency in data security, data privacy and AI regulations are a plus.Experience in the healthcare or health tech space is a plus. Sword Health complies with applicable Federal and State civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of Age, Ancestry, Color, Citizenship, Gender, Gender expression, Gender identity, Gender information, Marital status, Medical condition, National origin, Physical or mental disability, Pregnancy, Race, Religion, Caste, Sexual orientation, and Veteran status.
